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Bush's 'Road Map' for Peace Encountering Lethal Bumps
By Fred Jackson and Jody Brown
May 19, 2003
(AgapePress) - The latest terrorist attacks on Jews in Israel seem to prove what many conservatives in the United States have been saying about the Bush Administration's "road map" for peace.
On Monday, a homicide bomber blew herself up at the crowded entrance to a shopping center in the northern Israeli town of Afula. At least four people were killed, and more than 30 were injured. According to Fox News, the militant group Islamic Jihad is claiming responsibility for the attack. It was the fifth such bombing in 48 hours following blasts in Gaza, Jerusalem, and the West Bank.
The Hamas bomber who blew up a bus in Jerusalem a day earlier was wearing the prayer shawl and skull cap of an Orthodox Jew -- looking like a young man heading home from morning prayers. But the disguised bomber -- a 19-year-old from the West Bank city of Hebron -- detonated nail-studded explosives strapped to his body just seconds after boarding the bus, killing himself and seven passengers.
The White House and Secretary of State Colin Powell have issued the now-customary statements that follow Middle East homicide bombings. In Powell's release, he says "We call on the Palestinians to begin to take immediate and decisive action to eradicate the infrastructure of terrorism and violence."
Christian conservatives like Cal Thomas continue to wonder why the Bush Administration would expect anything other than violence from the Palestinians.
In a recent column, Thomas dismissed the possibility that the Palestinian Authority will make any real effort to end terrorism. As Thomas puts it: "Terrorism has been the official policy of Yasser Arafat and his bloody band of brothers for more than 30 years."
Thomas also sees little hope for reform coming from new Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas. He writes "abolishing Israel is in the corrupted blood of Arafat and all his henchmen, including Abbas."
These latest bombings are considered a major setback in the White House's plan to implement the road map, which calls for establishment of a Palestinian state by 2005. In the wake of the attacks, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has postponed indefinitely his planned meeting on Tuesday with President Bush.
The president was scheduled to meet with Abbas shortly after Sharon's trip. It is not known if that meeting as been postponed as well.
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